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by alanbcoates
Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: non-IBM support options, per-call support fee
Replies: 5
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non-IBM support options, per-call support fee

Are there viable fee-per-call alternatives to IBM support for resolving technical issues? If you're currently getting non-IBM support, I'd be interested in hearing how it's working for you. We don't have, and cannot afford IBM support costs (we would have to upgrade first, and that's not an option).
by alanbcoates
Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:46 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: FTP Plug-in Stage Remote FileName timedate variable
Replies: 2
Views: 1343

ArndW wrote:I think the answer here is "no". You could create a job parameter to hold this value and fill it at runtime with the current time from a calling Sequence.
I will follow the suggestion to supply the date/time as a job parameter.
by alanbcoates
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: FTP Plug-in Stage Remote FileName timedate variable
Replies: 2
Views: 1343

FTP Plug-in Stage Remote FileName timedate variable

I have a Transformer Stage that links to an FTP Plug-in stage. The external ftp target expects a unique predefined filename format, with a timedate stamp like this: BNSF.121120071434321.csv. The middle part of filename (between the dots) is MMDDYYYYHHSSMMM. The final MMM is thousandths of second. I ...